• ano_ba_to@sopuli.xyz
    12·
    7 hours ago

    It’s impossible to represent that on paper. It could be misrepresented as a specific number of spaces. Depending on the position on the paper, it may also be hard to tell if the carriage return comes with the line feed. Unless you want the document to be in ASCII or EBCDIC, it’s like writing an ambiguous math problem where the answer is different depending on how you were taught about the order of operations. Don’t do this to your kid, Abcde.

  • x4740N@lemm.ee
    10·
    12 hours ago

    I’m not american and I’m glad I’m not but intended if someone could enter a bunch of zero width spaces

  • AnyOldName3@lemmy.world
    62·
    18 hours ago

    Once I was tasked with doing QA testing for an app which was planned to initially go live in the states of Georgia and Tenessee. One of the required fields was the user’s legal name. I therefore looked up the laws on baby names in those two states.

    Georgia has simple rules where a child’s forename must be a sequence of the 26 regular Latin letters.

    Tenessee seemed to only require that a child’s name was writable under stone writing system, which would imply any unicode code point is permissible.

    At the time, I logged a bug that a hypothetical user born in Tenessee with a name consisting of a single emoji couldn’t enter their legal name. I reckon it would also be legal to call a Tenessee baby 'John '.

    • dan@upvote.au
      37·
      17 hours ago

      Sounds like you did a thorough job as a QA tester. As a software engineer, I love to see it.

    • lseif@sopuli.xyz
      8·
      12 hours ago

      so John\r Doe ? depending on the software, when it gets printed, the carriage return will moves the cursor to the start of the line without moving a line down, becoming \x20Doe.

      • lad@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        This is the ideal rendition, I would say. On a related note, I just love it when there are backspaces in my filenames

  • takeheart@lemmy.world
    242·
    20 hours ago

    Na, names are about pronunciation (how you call someone). Written letters are an approximation of that. You can’t pronounce a newline, so there’s that.

      • GamingChairModel@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 hours ago

        The hyphen can provide indicators on how to parse the letters on either side. “Pen-Island” would be pronounced differently from “Penisland.”

        • mossy_@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          9 minutes ago

          There’s a guy I follow on the internet called “penusbmic”, and he claims it’s supposed to mean “Pen, USB, Mic”.

          Whatever you say, Penus B. Mic.

      • lseif@sopuli.xyz
        2·
        12 hours ago

        i think they mean that pronounciation matters for determing validity, not for the actual record or distinguishing between names

        • BatmanAoD@lemmy.world
          3·
          11 hours ago

          But that doesn’t really address the original question, does it? You don’t have to pronounce all the letters in a name, so the fact that you can’t pronounce a newline isn’t sufficient to demonstrate that it can’t be part of a name.

    • Kogasa@programming.dev
      4·
      20 hours ago

      But something has to be written on the birth certificate and social security card, and that’s what everything else will expect you to use. I think just due to technical limitations (e.g. of the printer/template for those things) it wouldn’t be allowed, but I dunno about legally

  • Atomic@sh.itjust.works
    48·
    23 hours ago

    Not legal in Sweden. Our “IRS” must also accept the name and deem it legal.

    I for one like this. As it stops some very stupid people to name their children some very stupid names. Such as “Adolf Hitler”.

    And yes. Someone did try to name their child this and they were appropriately stoped from doing it.